TY - GEN
T1 - Nuclear hybrid energy infrastructure
AU - Agarwal, Vivek
AU - Tawfik, Magdy S.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The nuclear hybrid energy concept is becoming a reality for the US energy infrastructure where combinations of the various potential energy sources (nuclear, wind, solar, biomass, and so on) are integrated in a hybrid energy system. This paper focuses on challenges facing a hybrid system with a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) at its core. It will discuss efforts required to develop a supervisory control center that collects data, supports decision-making, and serves as an information hub. Such a center will also be a model for integrating future technologies and controls where overall system performance data can be used to enhance overall reliability, efficiency and resiliency. In addition, advanced operations research, thermal cycle analysis, energy conversion analysis, control engineering, and human factors engineering will be part of the supervisory control center. Nuclear hybrid energy infrastructure would allow operators to optimize the cost of energy production by providing appropriate means of integrating different energy sources. The data needs to be stored, processed, analyzed, trended, and projected at the right time to the right operators to integrate different energy sources.
AB - The nuclear hybrid energy concept is becoming a reality for the US energy infrastructure where combinations of the various potential energy sources (nuclear, wind, solar, biomass, and so on) are integrated in a hybrid energy system. This paper focuses on challenges facing a hybrid system with a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) at its core. It will discuss efforts required to develop a supervisory control center that collects data, supports decision-making, and serves as an information hub. Such a center will also be a model for integrating future technologies and controls where overall system performance data can be used to enhance overall reliability, efficiency and resiliency. In addition, advanced operations research, thermal cycle analysis, energy conversion analysis, control engineering, and human factors engineering will be part of the supervisory control center. Nuclear hybrid energy infrastructure would allow operators to optimize the cost of energy production by providing appropriate means of integrating different energy sources. The data needs to be stored, processed, analyzed, trended, and projected at the right time to the right operators to integrate different energy sources.
KW - Data analytics
KW - Human factors engineering
KW - Hybrid energy
KW - Supervisory control center
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84946142257
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946142257
T3 - 9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC and HMIT 2015
SP - 972
EP - 977
BT - 9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC and HMIT 2015
PB - American Nuclear Society
T2 - 9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, NPIC and HMIT 2015
Y2 - 22 February 2015 through 26 February 2015
ER -